A near-comprehensive collection of texts pertaining to the Lizzie Borden murder case alongside other Borden-related ephemera, tangentially related ephemera and vintage photographs. Various hardcovers from throughout the 20th century and several self-published texts, both hardcover and paperback. Thirty-two (32) total books. Including:
Two volumes of "Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor" by R.D. Blackmoore signed by a member of the Borden family. 20th edition circa 1882. Hardbound with red covers and a gold embossed cover. Originally published in 1869. Published by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. Signed at the front by L. Borden. Each volume is 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 1 3/4"; Edwin H. Porter (American, 1865-1903) "The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders." Published by the Press of J.D. Munroe, 1893. Signed and inscribed, and included with letter and collectors' correspondence; Edwin H. Porter (American, 1865-1903) "The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders." Published by the Press of J.D. Munroe. First Edition. 1893. Signed and inscribed, and included with the letter and collector's correspondence: Elizabeth Engstrom (American, b. 1951), "Lizzie Borden: A Novel." Fictional text. Hardcover. Published by Tor, 1991; Edward Hale Berdstadt (American, 1891-1970) "Satan Was A Man." Hardcover. Published by Doubleday, 1935. First Edition; Edgar Lustgarten (British, 1907 - 1978) "Verdict in Dispute: Six Famous Murder Cases Where Justice May Have Miscarried." Paperback. First American Edition. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1950; Sheila MacGill-Callahan (British), "Forty Whacks." First edition, signed; Cherie Priest (American, b. 1975), "Mapplecroft." Published by Penguin Group in 2014. Paperback; Walter Satterthwait (American, 1946 - 2020) "Miss Lizzie." Signed. Published by St. Martin's Press, NY, in 1989. Hardcover; Agnes de Mille (American, 1905-1993) "Lizzie Borden: A Dance of Death." Hardcover. Published by Atlantic/LB, Boston, in 1968. First Edition; Edwin H. Porter (American, 1865-1903) "The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders." Published by the Press of J.D. Munroe; Robert Sullivan (American) "Goodbye, Lizzie Borden." Hardcover. First edition. Published by the Stephen Green Press, 1974; "The Enjoyment of Murder." Hardcover, missing dust jacket. First edition. Published by Sheridan House, 1938; Marie Belloc Lowndes (British, 1868-1947) "Lizzie Borden: A Study in Conjecture." Signed. First edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co. in 1939. "The legend 100 years after the crime—a conference on the Lizzie Borden case." Published by Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA, from a conference held in 1992. Hardcover; Edmund Pearson (American, 1880 - 1937) "Trial of Lizzie Borden: Edited With A History Of The Case."Published by the Notable American Trials Library, 1989. Hardcover; two (2) copies of Arnold R. Brown "Lizze Borden: The Legend, The Truth, The Final Chapter." Hardcover. Published by Rutledge Hill Press, 1991; two (2) copies of Todd Lunday's "The Mystery Unveiled: The Truth About the Borden Tragedy." Hardcover. Two (2) copies of Karen Elizabeth Chaney's (American) "New England Remembers: Lizzie Borden." One (1) signed. Published by Common Wealth Editions, 2006; Owen Haskel "Lizzie!" Fictionalized play about Lizzie Borden. Published by Lazarus Press. Signed: Three (3) copies of Owen Haskell's "Sherlock Holmes and the Fall River Tragedy." Published by Lazarus Press. Paperback. One (1) signed; Edward D. Radin "Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story." Signed. Hardcover; Rich Little & Beverley Folstad "Cold Case to Case Closed: Lizbeth Borden: My Story." Self-published historical fiction. Paperback; one (1) collection of articles that appeared in the "Lizzie Borden Quarterly" in the form of a self-published pamphlet, all by Ed Thiabult; Judy P. Curry "I Found Lizzie Borden's Hatchet." A small self-published story printed with a hand-drawn map on blue paper. Staple-bound.
Provenance: property of a Fall River, Massachusetts collection, from the proprietor of the Lizzie Borden House Bed & Breakfast & Museum, many purchased from a noted expert on Borden from his extensive research on the subject.
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